Improved clasp for leather straps



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO B. CONDE, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

INI PROVED C-LASP FOR LEATH ER STRAPS.

Specification forming part .if Letters Patent No. 51,926, dated January 9, 1866.

To all whom t may concern: shown, with a hook, e, at one end, fitted to lie Be it known that l, ALONZO B. CONDE, of between the hook of c and the loop a, the other the city ot' Albany, State ot' New York, have part of the stripfextending so as,when closed, invented a hook or clasp for securing the ends tolie parallel with c and beyond its attachment of leather straps to other straps in harness, or to loop Z). to any other apparatus where the same may be Vhen the clasp is to be used,f is to be serviceable; andIdeclare thefollowingspecithrown back as shown by Fig. 3, the loop a cation, with the drawings forming part there passed over it, and then fdrawn back to its of, to be a full and complete description of my position as shown in Fig. 2, the. loop sliding invention. over it and falling into hook e so soon asfis Figurelrepresents ahorse-collar with haines brought down to its place. attached, my device heilig shown as arranged It will be seen that then loop t will lie in 4to fasten the lower ends of the llames under such a position in reference to thel hinge d, that the collar. Fig. 2 shows, in perspective, on a strain upon it will hold it iirmly within the larger scale, the clasp when shut and its conhook without the possibility ot' slipping out ot' nections; Fig. 3, a sectional view of the clasp it; also, that the simple act ot' throwingfback when open. will instantly discharge loop a.

Similar letters denote the same parts ofthe From this description it will be seen that apparatus. this clasp is applicable extensively to the con- A is the collar; B, the haines, secured over neeting of straps with each other or with other the collar, at its top, in the usual manner, by articles-as, for example, traces with Whittlestrap and buckle. Attached to one ot the trees-wherever it is desirable to employ fastlower ends ot' the haines is the usual strap-andenings that can be connected or disconnected buckle arrangement, C, which, instead of eX- promptly and without resorting to the slow tending to and connecting directly with the process ot' buckling and unbuckling. other end, terminates in a metal loop, a, a What I claim as my inventlon, and desire to similar metal loop, b, being aflixed to the other secure by Letters Patent, isend of the hames. The clasp, the subject of I The claspvformed and operating as described this invention, unites the two loops. It conand for the purposes set forth in this specilisists of a strip ot' thin metal,c, bent at one end, I cation. as shown, around loop b, and at the other end curved, so as to form a hook, fitting loosely A' B' CON D E around loop a. The outer end of this hook is l Witnesses:

formed as a hinge, d, -into which there is piv- RIoHD. VARICK DEWITT, oted another strip, f, of thin metal, formed, as E. J. MILLER. 

